Biography

Demosthenes Vouyioukas is Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Systems EngineeringUniversity of the Aegean, Greece, while he has also appointed as Director of the Computer and Communication Systems Laboratory. He served as Head of the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering (2019-2022) and Director of the MSc program “IoT: Intelligent Environments in Next-Generation Networks” (2018-2022). He received the five-year Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1996) and the Ph.D. degree (2003) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He also received a Joint Engineering-Economics M.Sc. from NTUA (2004). From 1996 to 2003, he has been a scientific researcher, and from 2003 to 2005, a senior researcher at the Mobile Radiocommunications Laboratory of NTUA, where he worked on several European and National R&D projects. From 2005 to 2006, he was with Hellenic Aerospace Industry at the Department of Satellite Communications. In 2004, he joined University of the Aegean as an adjunct lecturer (2004-2010), an Assistant Professor (2010-2016) and an Associate Professor (2016-2020), where he also serves as a scientific coordinator in several R&D projects. In November 2021 he appointed as deputy member of the plenary of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority, where in the past he has also served as a deputy member of the plenary of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (2012-2019).

He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and his current research interests include mobile and wireless communication systems, channel characterization and propagation models, machine learning techniques for pathloss prediction, performance modeling of wireless networks, cooperative wideband systems with relays, UWB indoor localization techniques, UAV and aerial communications, next generation mobile and satellite networks, mMIMO, IoT and 5G and beyond/6G technologies, network security and privacy policies. He has published over 140 papers in scientific journals, books, book chapters and international conference proceedings. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of IEEE Communication Society of the Greek Section, a member of IFIP and ACM and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He also serves as an Associate Editor of Telecommunication Systems Journal/Springer, Frontiers in Space Technologies/Frontier and Telecom/MDPI, Guest Editor of International Journal of Antennas and Propagation/Hindawi, Drones/MDPI, Applied Sciences/MDPI and Telecom/MDPI and TPC member in several international conferences. He is a General Chair and Organizer of the International Summer School “Emerging Architectures and Key Technologies for 5G Networks”.

Academic Positions

  • Present2020

    Professor

    Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean

  • 20202017

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Hellenic Open University, Undergraduate Program: Computer Science

  • 20202016

    Associate Professor

    Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean

  • 20172015

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Open University of Cyprus, Postgraduate Program: Wireless Communication Systems

  • 20152010

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean

  • 20092006

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering, University of the Aegean

  • 20072006

    Adjunct Lecturer

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Peloponnesus

Education

  • PhD 2003

    PhD in Telecommunications

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

  • MBA 2006

    Master of Business Administration in Engineering Economic Systems

    National Technical University of Athens in collaboration with National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and University of Piraeus

  • MSc 1996

    MSc - Diploma of Engineering

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

University Administrative Positions

  • 2019 - 2022
    Head of the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
  • 2018 - 2019
    Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering
  • 2018 - 2022
    Director of Postgraduate Program "IoT: Intelligent Environments in Next Generation Networks"
  • 2018 -
    Member of Internal Evaluation Group
  • 2015 - 2020
    Institutional Coordinator for Scholarship Program YPATIA
  • 2014 -
    Director of Computer and Communication Systems Laboratory
  • 2014 - 2020
    Member of the Research Unit
  • 2013 -
    Member of the Undergraduate Committee of Studies
  • 2013 -
    Member of the Coordinating Committee for Postgraduate Studies
  • 2011 -
    Member of the Committee of Educational Laboratories
  • 2011 -
    Institutional Coordinator for Hellas Grid
  • 2014 - 2018
    Member of the ICT Committee
  • 2013 - 2014
    Departmental Coordinator for Hellenic Academic Open Courses

Working Experience

  • 2021 -
    Member of the plenary at the Hellenic Data Protection Authority
    The Hellenic Data Protection Authority is a constitutionally established independent public authority, which has as its mission the supervision of the application of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), national laws 4624/2019 and 3471/2006, as well as other regulations concerning the protection of the individual from the processing of personal data.
  • 2012-2019
    Member of the plenary at the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy
  • 2006-2009
    Research associate at the Computer and Communication Systems Laboratory of the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department
    Participation at numerous research projects as member of the Computer and Communication Systems Laboratory (CCSL).
  • 2005-2006
    Electrical Engineer at the Hellenic Aerospace Industry, Department of Satellite Development and Applications
    Telecommunication Engineering and research and development for the operation of the DVB-RCS Hub. Project management of European Union’s and national research projects.
  • 2004-2006
    Post-doctoral thesis at the Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering
    Lecturer at Graduate Courses and at the Postgraduate Stream “Communication & Computer Networking Technologies” and Research Associate at the Telecommunications Group.
  • 2003-2005
    Senior researcher at the Mobile Radiocommunications Laboratory of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Project management at numerous research projects as a member of the Mobile Radiocommunications Laboratory (MRCL).
  • 1997-2003
    Scientific associate in the Mobile Radiocommunications Laboratory of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Participation at numerous research projects as member of the Mobile Radiocommunications Laboratory (MRCL).
  • 1996
    Electrical Engineer at the Public Power Corporation S.A
    Electrical Engineer at the Section of Wireless Communications. Testing, measurements, and installation of VHF transceivers for the Public Power Corporation’s wireless network (June 1996 - September 1996).